A new 219-page privately funded document, the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, has unleashed bombshell after bombshell, alleging that authorities in the United Kingdom allowed organized child sexual exploitation networks to operate across the country for decades.
Key Findings of the Report
The report's main thrust is that political sensitivities repeatedly took precedence over protecting vulnerable girls who were gang-raped, hooked on heroin, beaten, and battered. The crisis stretched from one end of the country to the other, involving at least 149 different jurisdictions.
According to the report, nearly all perpetrators were men of Pakistani Muslim heritage, and their victims were predominantly working-class white girls. Cops, politicians, and social services were reluctant to mention these facts for fear of rupturing 'social cohesion' or being labelled racist.
Failure at Every Level
The report's byword is failure. Police, social services, schools, and local councils failed to intervene while 12-year-old girls were being gang-raped. Authorities knew about the abuse but let it continue.
One victim, identified only as Chloe, told the inquiry she was abducted at age 12 and raped by a Pakistani Muslim man. He also raped her with a whiskey bottle that broke off in her vagina. Chloe received medical treatment, but nurses asked no questions. She was plied with alcohol and drugs, and when she told police she was having sex with adult men, she was written off as a child prostitute.
For years, Chloe was passed between men. Police even caught them raping her, but her rapists were released with no investigation. When she was 13, Chloe had chlamydia in her throat and vagina, gonorrhea, warts, and a clinic said nothing.
Systemic Issues
Among the report's findings:
- Prospective victims were given gifts, alcohol, drugs, and attention before being trafficked and gang-raped by groups of men.
- Cops, social services, schools, health authorities, and local councils treated victims as problems instead of their rapists.
- While the majority of the grooming gangs were Pakistani Muslim men, authorities were terrified of mentioning this crucial fact for fear of being labelled racist.
Recommendations and Actions
Despite its dire tone, the report also recommends much harsher sentences for organized child sexual exploitation, mandatory tracking of offender ethnicity, greater accountability for public officials who failed to act, and the deportation of foreign nationals convicted of these crimes.
The UK appears to be taking action as the National Crime Agency continues Operation Beaconport, a nationwide initiative that has launched a review of historic grooming gang investigations. Some cases have been sent back to local police to target missed lines of inquiry.
The report's author, Brad Hunter, draws parallels to Canada, where striving for 'social cohesion' has allowed weekly hatefests in major cities, race-based sentencing discounts, and dismissal of serious charges due to fears of deportation. He asks: 'If immigrant rape gangs were attacking 12-year-old Canadian girls, what would happen? Sadly, I think we all know.'
